Chapter 476: Hungarian Horntail (Edited)

On Sunday morning, Fish got out of bed again after ten o'clock and, when he entered the Great Hall, he was surprised to find Professor McGonagall there.

"Good morning, Minerva."

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Fish rushed over to Professor McGonagall and gave her a hug, as he always did.

"It's almost noon!"

Professor McGonagall patted Fish on the head and said, "Eat first, then come to my office, I need to talk to you."

After she finished speaking, she smiled and nodded to Hermione, then left the Great Hall.

"Nya?"

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Fish cocked his head in confusion, but didn't ask any more questions, instead taking a seat at the table and began to enjoy his breakfast.

Since Professor McGonagall was waiting, Fish picked up his eating speed a bit and, once he finished his plate of food, he grabbed Hermione's hand and they ran together to Professor McGonagall's office.

"Minerva, Fish is here."

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The two of them soon reached the door to Professor McGonagall's office, pushed the door ajar and Fish peeked inside.

"Come in."

Professor McGonagall greeted Fish, saying nothing when she saw Hermione enter with him.

"Why are you looking for Fish? Fish has been so good lately!"

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Fish said confidently.

As for what happened in Professor Moody's office a while back... since Professor Moody himself had no problem with it, it didn't count as him being bad!

"It's not that!" Professor McGonagall cried and laughed as she reached out and patted Fish on the head, saying, "I called to tell you not to go wandering around the Forbidden Forest for the next few days."

"Why? Fish wants to go play with Fluffy this afternoon."

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Fish asked dissatisfied.

"Because the content of the first event is placed in the Forbidden Forest," Professor McGonagall explained, "If you see it beforehand, it's not fair to the others."

"But..." Fish cocked his head to one side and said, "Fish already knows that.... Is going to fight a fire dragon right nya?"

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"What?! how do you know that?!"

Professor McGonagall stood up from her chair startled.

And Hermione next to Fish went pale with fear "Fighting with..... with... With fire dragons?! This is too dangerous!!! A fire dragon is something that even most adult wizards can't defeat alone! How can they let Fish and the others fight a fire dragon?!"

"But many adults can't defeat Fish! Fish is too powerful!"

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Fish told Hermione confidently, but still couldn't calm her down.

"Ahem... Don't worry, Hermione, the specific event is not fighting a fire dragon." Professor McGonagall reassured her future daughter-in-law before asking again, "Fish, how do you know?"

Fish scratched his head, wondering what excuse he could use to convince Professor McGonagall without exposing Harry, when Hermione, next to his, spoke first....

"That's why Hagrid called Harry last night, isn't it?"

"Hagrid? how could he help you cheat?!"

Professor McGonagall was furious, though she too was concerned for Fish and Harry's safety.... well... mostly Harry's, but she never considered the possibility of helping them cheat.

"Don't be angry, Minerva," Fish patted Professor McGonagall's arm reassuringly, "Harry said that Madame Maxime and Karkaroff also saw the fire dragon, so it's still fair to everyone nya."

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Hearing Fish say that, Professor McGonagall got a little less angry, but she still frowned and said, "That was very irresponsible of Hagrid, I must tell Dumbledore to remind Hagrid."

Fish scratched his head, it looked like he had accidentally screwed up Hagrid again...also....

"Isn't the first event a fight with a fire dragon nya?" Fish was looking forward to it..."

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Fish muttered a little disappointed.

Professor McGonagall and Hermione: "..."

"I can't tell you the details," Professor McGonagall said, rolling her eyes, "But it's up to you to face the fire dragon, and if it's you, Fish, you can actually win without facing it.... well... anyway, you should stay out of the Forbidden Forest for a couple of days."

Feeling she had said too much, Professor McGonagall changed her mind and returned to the original topic.

"But Fish knows he's a fire dragon!"

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Fish protested very unhappily.

"That wouldn't work either," Professor McGonagall shook her head, "If you befriend the Fire Dragon in advance, the first event will be too easy for you, which is also unfair."

"Well... okay."

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Fish blinked and agreed anyway.

Because it suddenly occurred to Fish, if he became good friends with fire dragons, it wouldn't be good to fight them, it would be better not to get to know them well, and then get to know them after the fight!

When they left Professor McGonagall's office, Hermione was still in a trance.

"Fish, fire dragons are scary, don't be stupid and fight them!"

Hermione said, her voice shaking, as she tugged on Fish's sleeve.

She was surprised, but she had realized that with Fish's affinity, the fire dragons wouldn't hurt her as long as she didn't provoke them.

But the thing is...

The problem was that Fish was planning to provoke the fire dragons!

"Don't worry, even Kanaloa is no match for Fish now, Fish can win nya!"

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Seeing Fish's attitude, Hermione knew it was useless to try to persuade him, so she wrung her fingers and thought for a while before deciding to go after Harry.

Since Fish was determined to fight a fire dragon, she had to at least find out what kind of fire dragons there would be at the first event so she could make plans for the cat.

As a result, Hermione searched hard all day, but didn't even see Harry's shadow, and he didn't even show up in the great hall for lunch or dinner.

It wasn't until evening that Hermione saw Harry return to the common room with a tired face.

"Harry, where have you been? I've been looking for you today." Hermione immediately ran to him and said, "Never mind, that's not important, I have something to ask you, you saw fire dragons last night, what kind were they? did Hagrid tell you exactly what the first event consisted of?"

Harry rolled his eyes and dropped into a chair, not immediately answering Hermione's question, but taking a couple of breaths.

He had spent all day in the Room of Requirement practicing the conjunctivitis spell Sirius had taught him, and although Sirius had said it was a simple little spell, it had taken Harry all day to master it, and he had even asked Dobby to bring his food to the Room of Requirement, so now he was exhausted, both physically and mentally.

"There are four dragons, I think we each have to deal with one..." After a long rest, Harry answered Hermione's question breathlessly, and finally added, "Sirius taught me a spell last night, I was going to tell Fish, but he wouldn't listen, he said it wasn't funny."

The implication was that he was telling Hermione that she was probably doing a useless job now.

Hermione, however, scoffed at Harry's words.

I'm Fish's girlfriend, am I just like you?

Miss Know-it-all was confident enough that the cat would never refuse her offer.

She cast a sly glance at Harry, thanked him, and ran off in search of Fish.

Just as Hermione had thought, Fish listened sincerely to Hermione's analysis of the strength of the four dragons.

"So... the most powerful fire dragon of the four is named Hungarian Horntail?"

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After hearing Hermione's analysis, Fish immediately gave her a big hug enthusiastically.

"Fish should have a good fight with that Hungarian Horntail!"

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Hermione: "..."